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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>clear</STRONG> - clear the terminal screen


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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>clear</STRONG>


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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>clear</STRONG> clears your screen if this is possible.  It looks in
       the environment for the terminal type and then in the <STRONG>ter-</STRONG>
       <STRONG>minfo</STRONG> database to figure out how to clear the screen.

       <STRONG>clear</STRONG>  ignores  any  command-line  parameters  that may be
       present.


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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
       <STRONG><A HREF="tput.1.html">tput(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>

       This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.6 (patch 20081011).



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